Word: roubaix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early Life. Born Feb. 5, 1907, in the bleak industrial city of Roubaix in the north of France, the son of an Alsatian textile worker. Pflimlin means "little plum" in Alsatian dialect and is pronounced by the French fleem-lanh (London headline-writers have nicknamed him "Mr. Plum"). Studied law at the Catholic Institute of Paris, later earned his doctorate at the University of Strasbourg. With a lively law practice in Strasbourg, became expert in economics and agriculture...
Plump and pleasant Janine Piesset and her husband, a plumber, live in a tiny red brick house in a pleasant corner of Roubaix (pop. 98,834). Until recently, their home was a happy one, and its brightest adornment a smart, pretty girl going on seven, whom they call Viviane...
Minor sport H's to George P. Baker, Jr. '53, Boston; Robert L. Berger '52, Newton Highlands; Richard L. Craven '52, New York city; Humphrey Doermann, New York City; Werner Drehmel '52, Brookline William R. Engstrom '52, Newtonville; Bernard J. Florin '53, Roubaix, France; Dana H. Getchell '53, Belmont; Benjamin S. Goldstein '53, Cambridge; Robert S. O. Harding '52, Rumson, J. J.; Donald C. Harshman '53, Englewood, N. J.; Richard W. Hulbert '51, Somerville; Berkeley D. Johnson, Jr. '53, Scarsdale, N. Y.; James P. Johnson '51, Clarks Summit, Pa.; Laurence B. Leonard, Jr. '52, Swampscott; Richmind P. Miller...